Coin Slot
Issue: 1979 August 054 - Page 8
Coin Slot Magazine - #054 - 1979 - August [International Arcade Museum]
The
Bicycle
^Premiumffer fl? 17 2
The first coin operated trade
stimulator to achieve national
popularity, THE BICYCLE was
made by a number of manufactur
ers and was sold for over a dozen
years. There were a number of
model variations, but in the main
Bicwle
they were much the same. The ma
ad,
circa
chine was created around 1896 by
the Waddel Wooden Ware Works
Company of Greenfield, Ohio, then
a successful manufacturer of count
ers, show cases, general store
equipment
and
the
SIMPLEX
series of manually operated cash
registers. The machine was proba
bly designed by Edward L. Mc-
Clain, an officer of the company,
for when McClain and Waddel
W.W.W. president John M. Wad
del
split
company,
McClain
promptly produced the machine at
his new Sun Manufacturing Com
WRlliLCY'S BWYGLC SLOT MACHINE ASSORTMENT.
1900
30 BOXES FOR $26.00.
A LogHlmate Trade Stimulator.
This it a miniature Bicycle complete, mounted on nickel plated standards. The
Frame is solid brats enameled green. Handle Bars, Cranks and Pedals are nickel
plated. It has full barrel ballbearing, nickel plated Hubs. Cabinet u quartered oak
golden finished, and decorated with fancy moulding, which adds materially to its beau
ty and finish It is sanctioned in many places where noother device is allowed. All who
see it concede it to be the most unique, novel sBd attractive machine ever placed on
the market.
Five different reward lilts furnished with each machine, any one of which
may be used for paying rewards in aey priced cigars or paying in merchandise. Make
t.ie offer to suit your trade. Wheels perfectly balanced and revolve rapidly. Num
bered from 1 to 24. not consecutively. Reward determined by adding together the
numbers shown by indicators when wheel stops.
*
We supply five reward lists. One with "no blanks," which is simply a trade stim
ulator, paying six 6c cigars for 25c. One on which the rewards are left blank: with
this you can make your own rewards; one each paying in five and ten cent cigars, but
i* blank from 14 to 16; and one paying in ••merchandise." This is blank from 10 to40.
The blank lists are profit makers and most attractive to your trade.
Dimensions of cabinet. 10 inches long. 18 inches high and 6 inches wide. Ship
ping weight 16 pound*, bet weight U pounds
We offer you this novel nachiae PREB with » boxes of Wrigley'ft Cum, Juicy
Fruit. Pepsin or aborted flavors at you want them, for 126 00, that is, U000 worth of
Gua at retail and the Bicycle Slot Machine for |» 00.
PR6IQHT PREPAID re destination ej per our Free Delivery Plan.
pany, also located in Greenfield.
Ten years later, when Sun Man
ufacturing Company was moved to
Columbus, Ohio, the firm was still
Ultimately, there were other
identification as a result of this re
making the machine as part of its
manufacturers, or marketers mas
luctance to promote a competitor's
line of cash registers, store fixtures
querading as such. The Samuel
product.
and vending machines.
Nafew Company of New York and
The Waddel machines often had
Chicago called their bicycle ma
THE BICYCLE wasn't very
large as far as slot machines go. It
a nickel-plated bicycle in a plain
chine the L.A.W. in their 1898
stands 13 inches high, is 19 inches
wood cabinet, with combinations
catalog, reflecting the ability of the
long and 5 inches deep. The cash-
paying from one to five cigars, or
device to avoid being classified as a
box is open for all to see, with the
whatever else was being dispensed.
gambling device under local laws.
nickels merely falling to the floor of
Some of the Waddel machines even
The Kelley Manufacturing Com
the cabinet. The shopkeeper had to
had advertising display panels sus
pany of Chicago turned out THE
empty the game almost as soon as it
pended in the center of the tubular
BICYCLE in the early 1900s, al
was played. Empty of coins, the
bicycle frame. The sun machines
though they seem to be made with
machine
were simpler, with a painted bicy
Sun components. Most store fix
pounds.
.com
m
:
u
m
use supply and saloon fix
cle in a scroll-trimmed stained
m hotel
d fro d tures,
-
e
e
d
ture houses also sold THE BICY
cabinet. The early Sun
oa machines
nl name
arca CLE, often putting their own name
.
w
had engraved ivory
plates.
o
w
D
w
Later models, produced
://w in Colum plates on the Sun machine, or re
p
t
t
bus, had etched
h metal name plates moving the manufacturer's name
only
weighed
eleven
THE BICYCLE machines aren't
particularly rare. Many collectors
have them, and at least three or
four dozen are known to exist. But
compared to the thousands in use
with the graphics in a swirling Ed
plate altogether. Most of the ma
around 1904 or so, even that isn't
wardian script.
chines that have survived are sans
much of a showing.
D
Michigan History
© The International Arcade Museum
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
The
Bicycle
^Premium
The first coin operated trade
stimulator to achieve national
popularity, THE BICYCLE was
made by a number of manufactur
ers and was sold for over a dozen
years. There were a number of
model variations, but in the main
Bicwle
they were much the same. The ma
ad,
circa
chine was created around 1896 by
the Waddel Wooden Ware Works
Company of Greenfield, Ohio, then
a successful manufacturer of count
ers, show cases, general store
equipment
and
the
SIMPLEX
series of manually operated cash
registers. The machine was proba
bly designed by Edward L. Mc-
Clain, an officer of the company,
for when McClain and Waddel
W.W.W. president John M. Wad
del
split
company,
McClain
promptly produced the machine at
his new Sun Manufacturing Com
WRlliLCY'S BWYGLC SLOT MACHINE ASSORTMENT.
1900
30 BOXES FOR $26.00.
A LogHlmate Trade Stimulator.
This it a miniature Bicycle complete, mounted on nickel plated standards. The
Frame is solid brats enameled green. Handle Bars, Cranks and Pedals are nickel
plated. It has full barrel ballbearing, nickel plated Hubs. Cabinet u quartered oak
golden finished, and decorated with fancy moulding, which adds materially to its beau
ty and finish It is sanctioned in many places where noother device is allowed. All who
see it concede it to be the most unique, novel sBd attractive machine ever placed on
the market.
Five different reward lilts furnished with each machine, any one of which
may be used for paying rewards in aey priced cigars or paying in merchandise. Make
t.ie offer to suit your trade. Wheels perfectly balanced and revolve rapidly. Num
bered from 1 to 24. not consecutively. Reward determined by adding together the
numbers shown by indicators when wheel stops.
*
We supply five reward lists. One with "no blanks," which is simply a trade stim
ulator, paying six 6c cigars for 25c. One on which the rewards are left blank: with
this you can make your own rewards; one each paying in five and ten cent cigars, but
i* blank from 14 to 16; and one paying in ••merchandise." This is blank from 10 to40.
The blank lists are profit makers and most attractive to your trade.
Dimensions of cabinet. 10 inches long. 18 inches high and 6 inches wide. Ship
ping weight 16 pound*, bet weight U pounds
We offer you this novel nachiae PREB with » boxes of Wrigley'ft Cum, Juicy
Fruit. Pepsin or aborted flavors at you want them, for 126 00, that is, U000 worth of
Gua at retail and the Bicycle Slot Machine for |» 00.
PR6IQHT PREPAID re destination ej per our Free Delivery Plan.
pany, also located in Greenfield.
Ten years later, when Sun Man
ufacturing Company was moved to
Columbus, Ohio, the firm was still
Ultimately, there were other
identification as a result of this re
making the machine as part of its
manufacturers, or marketers mas
luctance to promote a competitor's
line of cash registers, store fixtures
querading as such. The Samuel
product.
and vending machines.
Nafew Company of New York and
The Waddel machines often had
Chicago called their bicycle ma
THE BICYCLE wasn't very
large as far as slot machines go. It
a nickel-plated bicycle in a plain
chine the L.A.W. in their 1898
stands 13 inches high, is 19 inches
wood cabinet, with combinations
catalog, reflecting the ability of the
long and 5 inches deep. The cash-
paying from one to five cigars, or
device to avoid being classified as a
box is open for all to see, with the
whatever else was being dispensed.
gambling device under local laws.
nickels merely falling to the floor of
Some of the Waddel machines even
The Kelley Manufacturing Com
the cabinet. The shopkeeper had to
had advertising display panels sus
pany of Chicago turned out THE
empty the game almost as soon as it
pended in the center of the tubular
BICYCLE in the early 1900s, al
was played. Empty of coins, the
bicycle frame. The sun machines
though they seem to be made with
machine
were simpler, with a painted bicy
Sun components. Most store fix
pounds.
.com
m
:
u
m
use supply and saloon fix
cle in a scroll-trimmed stained
m hotel
d fro d tures,
-
e
e
d
ture houses also sold THE BICY
cabinet. The early Sun
oa machines
nl name
arca CLE, often putting their own name
.
w
had engraved ivory
plates.
o
w
D
w
Later models, produced
://w in Colum plates on the Sun machine, or re
p
t
t
bus, had etched
h metal name plates moving the manufacturer's name
only
weighed
eleven
THE BICYCLE machines aren't
particularly rare. Many collectors
have them, and at least three or
four dozen are known to exist. But
compared to the thousands in use
with the graphics in a swirling Ed
plate altogether. Most of the ma
around 1904 or so, even that isn't
wardian script.
chines that have survived are sans
much of a showing.
D
Michigan History
© The International Arcade Museum
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).